GreenEnergy
Explore where low-carbon electricity is produced — and how renewable power reaches industrial users. Compare national electricity systems, examine physical direct-supply projects and explore institutional energy outlooks.
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Natural Earth / world-atlas · Illustrative boundaries and approximate project locations. Small territories may be absent from this map; use the directory.
Storage: power and energy are different
Selected official national snapshots, with their own dates and coverage. These records are not a harmonised global ranking.
Institutional energy outlooks
What could the global electricity system look like in 2030 and beyond? Explore selected published results from the IEA and IRENA, with each report’s assumptions attached.
How to read these outlooks
A report’s publication year is different from its target year. Compare only the same indicator, technology scope, geography and time basis. Installed capacity is a stock (GW); additions describe growth over a period. Electricity generation is annual output (TWh); generation share is a percentage of total electricity. Storage power (GW) is not stored energy (GWh).
Differences between reports may reflect assumptions, publication dates and modelling methods. IEA medium-term forecasts, policy scenarios and IRENA climate-aligned pathways are not interchangeable. Values retain the source’s rounding or qualifiers; no unreported precision is added.
Country directory
Sources, definitions & coverage
National statistics
Annual electricity data are a dated extract of Ember’s public dataset. Its capacity series draws on IRENA and other documented sources. Select one year and one electricity source at a time. A country’s generation share is that source’s electricity generation divided by total national electricity generation; it is not a share of energy consumption or installed capacity. Major-region totals are provided separately and are never added to their member countries.
Renewables include hydropower, wind, solar, bioenergy and other renewable electricity. Nuclear is shown separately; low-carbon electricity combines nuclear and renewables under the source dataset’s definition. “Other renewables” may combine geothermal, tidal and wave power. Green hydrogen is an electricity user and is represented in the project view, not added as an electricity generation source. Data completeness and estimates vary by country and year. The default is 2024 for broader country coverage; 2025 is selectable with fewer observations. Positive figures below 0.01 are displayed as “<0.01”, not zero.
Physical direct supply
The project view is a selected evidence collection, not a complete global inventory. It distinguishes dedicated direct lines, on-site supply and islanded microgrids. A grid-connected power purchase agreement or renewable certificate alone does not establish physical direct supply. International examples are physical analogues; they are not automatically classified under China’s “green electricity direct connection” policy.
Project capacities are reported or planned capacities, not measured annual output. A commissioning or approval announcement does not establish present sustained operation. Coordinates identify an approximate reported locality, not surveyed facility boundaries. Report dates and event dates are kept distinct. Project capacities are not added to country totals.
Storage evidence
National storage snapshots retain the original technology boundary and reporting date. Their scopes can differ, so no cross-country total is calculated. Storage energy capacity is not the same as annual electricity delivered or consumed.
Data sources
Map: Natural Earth via world-atlas (public domain geographic data). Country and project records can be accessed without the map. This is a versioned public-data snapshot; automatic monitoring is not enabled.
All information is derived from public reports. Accuracy, completeness and currency are not guaranteed. Consult the original evidence before relying on a figure or project claim.